by News Staff | Aug 26, 2009 | Past Posts
When it comes to growing marijuana on large hidden farms on public lands, growers don’t seem to mind if the land is inside our favorite national treasures.On August 20, a ranger in Yosemite National Park, along with National Park Service Agents, eradicated 4,735...
by News Staff | Aug 26, 2009 | Past Posts
A newly released presidential advisory report on Swine Flu says half the U.S. population will likely be affected by the disease in coming months. Locally, Public Health Officer Dr. Rick Johnson said that this report plans for the worst case scenario.Dr. Johnson said...
by News Staff | Aug 25, 2009 | Past Posts
A lack of players mostly caused by academic ineligibility and apparently apathy has forced the Mammoth High School football teams to cancel and thus forfeit at least the first two games of the season. First-year varsity head coach James Gray said that before...
by News Staff | Aug 25, 2009 | Bureaucrat Beat
Do you find the bureaucratic color alert levels as troubling as we do? First of all, news came out last week that former Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge has written in his new book that the Bush Administration wanted him to use the terror level alerts to bolster the...
by News Staff | Aug 25, 2009 | General Misc. Stories
After every vacation – or at least the ones where I actually leave thearea – I’m always reminded that one of the great things about living inthe Eastern Sierra is the wide-open spaces. LADWP owns the water andthe land, but we do have great places to...